At Play with Clay
/Ever since Mary Shelley wrote her weird masterpiece two centuries ago, it's been impossible to keep a good monster down. In the Shadow of Frankenstein gives readers two dozen pastiches that keep the Creature alive.
Read MoreEver since Mary Shelley wrote her weird masterpiece two centuries ago, it's been impossible to keep a good monster down. In the Shadow of Frankenstein gives readers two dozen pastiches that keep the Creature alive.
Read MoreThe Second World War closes in on the two families bravely struggling to keep Cavendon Hall alive.
Read MoreIn fantasy illustrator Todd Lockwood's debut novel, a young woman from a family of dragon-breeders faces an ancient evil
Read MoreThe familiar story of the Spartacus rebellion gets a lavish new telling
Read MoreA terrific ten-year-old noir novel is given a new paperback edition on the occasion of its translation to the Hollywood screen.
Read MoreA violent, desolate stretch of the English coastline forms the setting for Andrew Michael Hurley's much-heralded debut novel
Read MoreA young woman's diary of her friendship with Anton Chekhov raises the tantalizing possibility of a long-lost work by the master.
Read MoreRick Campbell's new novel features a fight to the death deep under the Arctic ice
Read MoreIn Joe Hill's new novel, a plague of spontaneous combustion is sweeping the world ...
Read MoreA 1984 assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forms the unlikely backdrop for Jonathan Lee's US debut novel
Read MoreA complex and moving novel about a trio of young men who leave their native India in search of work
Read MoreA new historical novel joins the ranks of those trying to rehabilitate the reputation of poor Lucrezia Borgia
Read MoreMany kinds of violence haunt a remote California island chain when a nature photographer takes a one-year assignment there
Read MorePopular French science-fantasy writer Serge Brussolo gets makes his debut appearance in English with a story of men and women who treasure-hunt in the dreams of other people
Read MoreThe debut short story collection from a Montana fly-fishing guide
Read MoreNicholas Searle's debut novel stars a canny old swindler who may or may not have found has final, perfect mark
Read MoreA name from a hotshot defense attorney's past comes back to haunt her when she discovers her ex is a suspect in a triple homicide
Read MoreAn out-of-work musician is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a legendary blues singer, but the legend hides some grim new realities
Read MoreMisfits and battered believers fill the pages of Kathy Anderson's wise and funny debut
Read MoreThe Nazi slaughter of hundreds of thousands of European gypsies forms the grim backdrop to Lindsay Hawdon's debut novel
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